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Returning Servicemen to Civilian Lite Has Been
Organized on Army Version^ Assembly Line Plan
Typical G.I. Joe Goes
Through Ropes at
Separation Center
S/Sgt. Arthur Freund, 25-year-old
overseas veteran, is typical of the
thousands of soldiers who wdll be
given discharge under the point
plan, on account of age, or due to
dependencies. Like many others.
Sergeant Freund would like to have
stayed in service until his job was
done. He will continue to contrib
ute to war effort on the home front.
His war experience will aid him.
His wife, Bertha, who lives in
Brooklyn, N. Y., was made an in
valid by an automobile crash. Ar
thur is needed at home to take care
of her. He had no choice, and the
army, realizing that his greater
duty was to his wife, sent him, along
with hundreds of others, to Fort Dix,
N. J. Separation center areas have
been established throughout the
| United States to take care of the
343,000 Yanks who will be dis
charged in next 30 days. The one
at Fort Dix was selected for Ser
geant Freund, being the nearest to
his home.
Property Is Checked
A11 records and property is
checked upon arrival. When the dis
charged soldier leaves the center he
is given one complete outfit.
Goes Through Mill
The big moment he has been wait
)lng for arrives. Sergeant Freund,
top, is shown with his final papers,
which he must sign. They include
his discharge certificate and separa
tion qualification record, which he
will find need for in years to come.
Center, another big moment. Final
payday has arrived. He receives his
discharge button, service and hon
or medals and ribbons and all pay
due him from the army, including
the first $100 of his mustering out
pay. Having served overseas he will
receive $300 mustering out pay in all.
Lower, the Honorable Discharge is
presented by separation center com
mander, along with congratulations
on Sergeant Freund’s excellent serv
ice record.
Receives Final Instructions
Along with other men Sergeant Freund hears an orientation talk by
camp officer. Insert shows him during an interview, during whieh he
is given expert counseling and assistance for his transition to civilian
life. He is explained the G.I. Bill of Rights, benefits of Insurance and
given employment assistance w’hen desired.
His Last Physical Examination
Sergeant Freund reports to the medical branch for a complete and
final physical examination. X-rays, dental inspection and complete
check-up are part of the regular routine. Each veteran must inform
the medical officer of any illness or injury incurred since entry into
service. Disability claims are prepared at this time.
Given Special Meal
Like many others who arrive in
camp at odd hours of the day and
night, Sergeant Freund missed reg
ular army chow, but he doesn't go
hungry, because the separation cen
ters' provide a special mess for those
who arrive late.
A Civilian Is Born
Proof that he is a citizen—above
the right pocket of Sergeant
Freund’s olive drab blouse, has been
placed the honorable discharge em
blem that certifies honorable and
faithful service to his country. lie
will be given a discharge button.
Sheet of Paper and a Signature
It may le only a single sheet of white paper, a few printed words,
and a signature in blue ink, but it represents 26 months of faithful service
to the army and an honorable discharge for Sergeant Freund, It’s his
entry back into the civilian life of the nation for which he offered his life.
Final Army Duty—Signing Discharge
Ills final job in the army 1s to
sign all papers, place his thumb print
on his honorable discharge and then
check the clothing that will be issued
to him. The government will have a
big postwar job, the filing and pre
serving of the records of more than
10 million members of the armed
forces. These records must be in
excellent shape, and contain the
complete war record of each man.
All future claims will be determined^
y*v the records on discharge day.
The task of discharging this vast
army has already begun but will not
be completed until months after V-J
Day. Many rnen have expressed a
desire to remain in service during
peacetime. Provisions are being
made to permit them to stay in the
regular army, navy or marines. At
the present time no mass discharge
of naval men is being planned. The
process of discharging those in the
navy, when it gets under way, will
be similar to that of the army.
Reduce Size of Cobs
By Increasing Grain
Proper Fertilization
Produces Better Corn
How corn growers can avoid
"shortchanging” themselves on
grain yields by reducing the amount
of cobs per bushel through soil im
provement practices was described
by H. J. Snider of the Illinois college
of agriculture.
Professor Snider cited tests at the
college's experimental field near
Fertilized Corn
Ewing, 111., to show
that the proportion
of grain to cobs is
increased when
corn is grown on
fertilized land. Since
cobs have little or
no feed value and
are so low in plant
nutrients that they
have virtually no
use in manure, the
advantages of soil
Improvement are obvious.
At the Ewing field, U. S. Horrid
No. 13 was grown on land treated
with limestone, phosphorus and pot
ash and in which nitrogen-fixing
legumes had been plowed under,
Snider reported. The same hybrid
was planted on untreated land and
at harvest the results were com
pared. The corn grown on fertilized
land contained 10.5 pounds of cobs
per bushel of ear corn weighing 70
pounds. The hybrid grown on un
treated land contained 14 pounds
per bushel,
“This means that each 100 bush
els of corn grown on unfertilized
land contained 350 pounds more
cobs than 100 bushels of the same
hybrid grown on treated land,'
Snider said.
“On this basis, a farmer who does
not treat, shortchanges himself by
5 bushels of grain in each 100 bush
els of corn produced. Moreover,
when he buys ear corn grown on
this type of land, he is subject to
the same shortchanging process,
rhe extra poundage of cobs must
be handled out of the field into and
out of the crib and into the feed
ers."
Grow Supar Beets
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The above is a direct appeal from
the officials appointed by the Com
mander-in-Chief of our country call
ing on the farmers of America to
grow the sugar that this nation so
vitally needs.
To Convert Fuel Oil
From Farm Crop Waste
While there has been talk and ex- j
perimentation for several years
about obtaining several by-products
from corn stalks and other farm
waste, the United States department
of agriculture now comes out with
a full-fledged program for extract
ing liquid motor fuel from corncobs,
peanut shells, flax shives, oat hulls,
cottonseed hulls and burs and sugar
cane bagasse and other farm waste.
The department says that experi
mental laboratory investigations oy
their chemists indicate that from BO
to 95 gallons of liquid motor fuel can
be obtained from a ton of corncobs
or cottonseed hulls and that about
half of this Is in the form of ethyl
alcohol.
Experimentations have advanced
to the semi-works stage at the D. of
A. northern regional research lab
oratory at Peoria, 111., and results
are so promising that the work is
to be enlarged so that It now may
be evaluated on a semi-commer
cial scale.
Campaign Saved Lives
Thousands of human lives have
been saved as a result of the na
tion's campaign against cattle tuber
culosis, according to figures re
leased by the American Veterinary
Medical association.
Since 1930, human deaths from
non-pulmonary tuberculosis in this
country have decreased 54 per cent.
In 1921, condemnations of swine at
packing plants because of tuberculo
sis averaged .17 per cent, it has now
been reduced to .02 per cent.
Pretty Mother and
Daughter Bonnets
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5875
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A PRETTY sight on a hot sum
** mer’s day—a young mother
and her pretty little daughter in
crisp ginghams and stiffly starched
matching white hats. Crochet
these gay bonnets in all-white or
pale pastel colored cotton yam.
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To obtain complete crocheting Instruc
tions for the Mother and Daughter Dutch
Bonnets (Pattern No. 5875) send 16 cents
in coin, your name, address and the pat
tern number.
Due to an unusually large demand and
current war conditions, slightly more time
is required in filling orders for a few of
the most popular pattern numbers.
Send your order to:
SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK
530 South Wells St. Chicago.
Enclose 16 cents for Pattern.
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Name
Address_
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